A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
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Wow, beautiful patina on these. I see several pairs too. A very nice collection.
Impressive. They look solid. What do all these knobs stand for?
Love them! Great collection! nice photo!
nice beautiful motive in view. it looks like the old model.
Thanks everyone for showing your appreciation!
Ingrid, yes, these are all good solid silver, with the 5 on the left being the heaviest and easily weighing over a 100 grams each. The 3 on the left are called Mizam and are favoured by Mauritanian women, but I'm not sure about the function of the soldered beads of different shapes.
impressif collection, nice authetic pieces.
the pair in the left is almost the same in the all sahara ( not sahel ) from mauritania until lybia. the hoggar and akakus tuareg women love them and wear them dayly.
the left first 3 ones are more mauritania,west sahara ,south marocco and a little in tuat ( algeria ).
all this bracelets are the step between the spikes ( defence bracelets ) and the flat ones.
here a foto of semilar ones i purshassed in Hoggar
https://ethnicjewels.ning.com/photo/touareg-bracelets-1?context=user#!/photo/touareg-bracelets-1?context=user
What can one say? stunning.
beautiful...lovey to see them all together x